CVE-2026-43002 (GCVE-0-2026-43002)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-05 00:00 – Updated: 2026-05-06 06:05
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Summary
An issue was discovered in OpenStack Horizon 25.6 and 25.7 before 25.7.3. There is a write operation to the session storage backend before authentication and thus storage can be exhausted by unauthenticated requests. This is a regression of the CVE-2014-8124 fix.
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-696 - Incorrect Behavior Order
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OpenStack Horizon Affected: 25.6.0 , < 25.7.3 (semver)
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